diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/options/pipeline_options.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/options/pipeline_options.py
index a7db5bfb0e71..fc0c9025dabd 100644
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/options/pipeline_options.py
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/options/pipeline_options.py
@@ -1172,6 +1172,10 @@ def _handle_temp_and_staging_locations(self, validator):
       return []
     # Both staging and temp locations are bad, try to use default bucket.
     else:
+      _LOGGER.warning(
+        "Both temp_location and staging_location are invalid. "
+        "Expected format is 'gs://<bucket>/<object>'. "
+        "Attempting to create a default GCS bucket.")
       default_bucket = self._create_default_gcs_bucket()
       if default_bucket is None:
         temp_errors.extend(staging_errors)